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Chateau de Rayne Vigneau Sauternes 1986
$280.00Jeremy’s score NR / 100A warm summer following a cold winter and cool springtime has delivered a beautifully mature and complex dessert wine right in the window of balance between development and freshness.
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Chateau Margaux Cabernet Blend 1983
$3,100.00Jeremy’s score 98/100An exercise in balance and finesse, this is a classic Margaux that delivers a truly exceptional bouquet of smoky, cigarboxy and underbrush, with a long, silky and red-fruited palate that seamlessly extends forever. One of the highlights of this spectacular vintage.
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Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Le Petit Mouton (Formerly Le Second Vin) Cabernet Blend 1993
$340.00Jeremy’s score NR / 100 -
Giaconda Beechworth (Formerly Estate Vineyard) Shiraz 2013
$80.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A youthful, elemental shiraz whose briary aromas of cassis, blackberries, dark plums and smoky dark chocolate oak are lifted by spicy, peppery notes and reveal meaty, charcuterie-like undertones. Full to medium-bodied, it’s rather oaky in its youth, with a withdrawn presence of blackberries, dark plums, cassis and blueberries tightly knit with cedar/chocolate oak and underpinned by a firm but fine and crunchy backbone. It just needs time for its components to integrate, its acids to soften and for its savoury aspects to become more pronounced.
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Giaconda Beechworth (Formerly Estate Vineyard) Shiraz 2015
$115.00Jeremy’s score 96/100Dark and smoky, with deep, spicy aromas of plums and berries backed by earthy, mineral notes. Long and deeply flavoured, with length and drive, it seamlessly marries dark fruits with chocolatey oak and meaty undertones, culminating in a measured, savoury finish.
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Giaconda Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir 2013
$300.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A supple and fine-grained pinot whose heady, floral perfume of red flowers, red cherries and berries has a dusty, cedary oak-derived note, a hint of musky spice, nuances of dried herbs and a note of Sicilian blood orange. Medium to full-bodied, itÕs long and elegant, with translucently clear core of cherry, plum and berry flavours and tight-knit crunchy tannins backed by a faint meatiness, a hint of clove and fennel. ItÕs likely to build substantial richness before then becoming finer and more savoury as it matures. Reminiscent of the stellar 1989 edition.
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Grosset Polish Hill Riesling 2014
$135.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Austere and traditional, waiting to unfold deep layers of fruit and minerality, this faintly toasty and oily riesling has an alluring bouquet of white flowers, apple, pear and like juice backed by suggestions of schist and lavender. ItÕs rich and concentrated with a long and assertive palate of translucent lime juice, apple and pear-like fruit backed by a fine chalkiness and tightly wrapped in a taut acidity, finishing bone-dry and vivacious.
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Grosset Springvale Riesling 2014
$120.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Very stylish and generous, with a delicate, slightly subdued floral perfume scented with lime, lemon, apple and pear. Beginning to reveal some smoky, toasty complexity, itÕs classically long and austere, with a mouthfilling but shapely core of apple, pear, white peach and lemony fruit that culminates in a crisp, citrusy acidity, finishing with genuine definition and focus.
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Mount Mary Quintet Cabernet Blend 2010
$285.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A deep, alluring perfume of violets, cassis, raspberries and mulberries is augmented by fresh, fine-grained cedar/vanilla oak and undertones of dried herbs. With time it has begun to reveal suggestions of wet wool and lanolin, losing the brightness of its youth. It’s still supple and fine-grained, with a lively core of red berry flavour, but it’s drying out from the finish and does finish with some slightly edgy and awkward aspects.
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Mount Mary Quintet Cabernet Blend 2011
$250.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Willowy and elegant, with the structure, length and balance and mature with grace. Dusty and faintly herbal aromas of small black and red berries, mulberries and violets backed by restrained oak and musky forest floor undertones, reveal a hint of capsicum. Initially plump and juicy, it’s medium to full-bodied, with restrained but lively black and red berry and plum flavours supported by reserved oak and a supple spine of dusty tannin. It finishes with length and persistence, but with some underlying herbal notes and a suggestion of green-edged acidity.
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Peter Lehmann Stonewell Shiraz 2005
$650.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Deeply flavoured, this firmly structured, ripe and astringent shiraz reveals a briary, spicy bouquet whose deep scents of mulberries, dark cherries, blackberries and smoky vanilla/cedar oak are backed by nuances of dark olives. Brooding and deeply layered, with dark plum and berry flavours underpinned by drying, sinewy tannins, it is likely to flesh out with more fruit sweetness and roundness in the years ahead.
